Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, wrote under the pseudonym George Sand. From this book I learned that her identity as a female was broadly known. She dressed as a man to exercise her creative approach to life. The times placed constraints on her personality which were confining to her free spirit. From...
I probably shouldn’t have read this novel as I was listening to Nancy Horan’s novel, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, but in truth, they were a good pair to read together. They covered a similar period of time, were set mainly in Europe, and showed the great disparity in the lives of a successful male...
May 2015: Am going to just DNF this and move on. Am at about 73% and while I'm liking it a smidgen more, I'm just exhausted by the encyclopedic focus on Sand's life (to the detriment of the story, I feel), and the dual story lines (I do not see a difference in young Sand and older Sand, and it just ...
Aurore Dupin was born into a tumultuous family in early 19th century France. As an adult, she left her husband, moved to Paris, dressed in men’s clothing and made her dream of having a career in writing come true, under the name of George Sand. She lived a scandalous life for the time; left a numb...
George Sand was a precocious French writer during the 19th century. However Sand was another person entirely. Born as Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin to a French courtesan and Maurice Dupin, though she was raised by her grandmother on her estate of Nohant in the province of Berry. Married at eighteen ...
In The Dream Lover we meet Aurore Dupin, or as she is better known George Sand. The book starts with her leaving her husband and her children for a life in Paris, but it will take a while before we will know what led her to the decision. The story in the book will take two roads. We will get to know...
Right off the bat, I would like to say it was a refreshing change to read a book with main characters in their 50s that shows that older people are *not* asexual and/or boring.The action of "The Last Time I Saw You" is centered around five people attending their 40th class reunion. Candy was the cla...
I found “The Dream Lover” to be a beautifully written book. While much has always been made of the scandalous life that Sand led, this book shows her romantic heart, her fragility and lifelong search for love. Even though it’s a novel based on her life and not a biography and the author states in...
I received a copy of this ebook from the First to Read program.George Sand's life was amazing, and it will always make for great story-telling. Surrounded by people whose names are still familiar to us, Sand lived in a Paris culture dominated by the arts: music, art, writing, at a time of relative ...
This book started out just alright for me, but about 60% of the way through I found I was just that into it. I read to be entertained, I wasn't. It became very laborious. I'm sure there are those out there who would like this book, but for me it was just okay. Thank you Random House and Net Galley f...
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